Reel for check-row wire



(No Model.)

G. W. & P P. MURPI-IEY.

REEL FOR CHECK ROW WIRE.

No. 329,066. Patented Oct. 27, 18185.

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PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. MURPHEY AND FRANK P. MURPHEY, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

REEL FOR CHECK-ROW WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 329,066, dated October 27, L885.

Application filed March 7, 1885. Serial No. 158,072. (No model.)

and FRANK P. MURIPHEY, residents of the city of Decatur, county of Macon, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful.

Improvements in Reels for Oheck-Row Wire, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of reels in which power is received from a cog-wheel attached to the hub of a planter-wheel; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In check-row -wire reels heretofore constructed there has been a constant tendency of the wire to reel up in ridges that would finally succumb to the tension and slide to one side in an entangled mass of knots and wire, effectually precluding the possibility of relaying by automatic means.

To overcome the above-mentioned inconvenience and to provide a cheap, effective, and readily-accessible tension-regulator for the reel-frame is the object of our invention.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of our device. Fig. 2 is a side view of the reel-frame and tension-regulator. Fig. 3 represents the tension-band, and Fig. 4 is a plan of the reel-frame and wire-guide.

a is a cylinder on plate d, adapted to be secured to a planter-wheel around the hub by means of securing-bolts e and. plates 6.

b is a cog-wheel arranged obliquely with the planter-wheel, and provided with ledges on each side.

0 is a tubular bearing, rigid with plate 02, and adapted to fit over the projecting end of a planter-wheel hub.

g is a support for bracket f f, resting on bearing 0, and secured from misplacement by nut h.

M are bearings for the reel-shaft, supported by bracket f f.

k is a pinion, rigidly attached to reel-shaft p, and adjusted to mesh with cog-wheel Z).

Z is a lug on bracket ff, from which a brace extends to the planter-frame.

m is an adjustable support for wire-guide n.

o is a tension-band provided with lugs r r and adj usting-bolt s.

q represents the reel-frame, adjusted to rotate loosely on shaft t is the brace that holds bracket ff in an approximately vertical position, and furnishes a point of support for wire-guide n.

torepresents a projection on the reel-frame thatrotates the friction-band 0.

- o is'a friction-wheel, over which band 0 fits, and by means of which motion is imparted to the reel.

10 in Fig. 3 represents a coiled spring, that may be used to give greater elasticity to the tension-band.

The cog-wheel b rotates with the planterwheel and imparts motion to pinion k and shaft 10. Wheel 1; is rigid on its shaft, and consequently partakes of the motion of the planter-wheel through cog-wheel b and pinion k. The reel-frame can be made to rotate with wheel 0 by tightening the tension-band, and the tension of said band may be regulated to suit the various requirements of the reel.

The oblique cog-wheel b, with its projecting ledges, produces a slow reciprocating motion in shaft 10 and reel-frame q, and this motion has the effect of distributing the wire evenly over the periphery of the reel, the funnelformed guide a assisting in such distribution by delivering the wire to the reel in a uniform line.

Both the reel-frame and the wire-guide are laterally adjustable, in order to conform to the position of the pulleys on various check-rowers.

Shaft c rotates with the planter-wheel, and support g of brackets ff rests thereon, and with the aid of bracet sustains the reel-frame in the position shown in Fig. 1.

The reel-frame, shaft, pinion, and-bracket, together with the tension-regulator and wireguide, may be detached from the planter by loosening bolt h, and to make the process of detachment more convenient a portion of the outward ledge of the cog-wheel, at the highest point indicated in Fig. 1, should be removed, in order that pinion k may be readily removed therefrom.

. The bolts 6 are designed to pass between the spokes of a planter-wheel, and the plates 6 to act as clamps against the inner surface of the same.

In common with other automatic reels, the tension is designed to wind the wire tightly, but without undue strain, the band being adjustedto slip before the stress on the reel becomes dangerously strong, and in unreeling the wire the tension is adjusted sufficiently tight to properly stretch the wire.

5 Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure... by Letters Patent 1. The device for evenly distributing wire on a reel, herein set forth, consisting in an ob- IO lique gear-Wheel adapted to be attached to a planter-wheel and concentric therewith, a pinion on a reel-shaft in mesh with the oblique gear-wheel, and suitable means of imparting the deflecting motion of the gear-wheel to the I 5 pinion and reel, all incombination, substantially as set forth.

2. The tension-regulating device for check- .roW-Wire reels, herein set forth, consisting in the combination of friction-wheel c, rigidly 20 attached to the reel-shaft, tension-band 0, se-

cured tothe loosely-revolving reel, and adjusting-bolt s in'lugs r r of the tension-band, as set forth.

3. Frictionwheel v on shaft k, tension-band 0, secured to reel q, bolt 8 in lugs r 1', and spring 10 on bolt 8, all in combination, as and for the purpose set forth.

4.. The combination, in a device for evenly distributing wire on a reel, herein set forth, consisting in oblique gear-wheel b, pinion k, shaft 10, reel-frame q, and wire-guide n, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we sign our names in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. W. MURPHEY. FRANK P. MURPHEY. At-test:

I. D. WALKER, L. P. GRAHAM. 

